Nvidia Teams with California to Enhance AI Education in Colleges

California and Nvidia are working together to improve AI education. Students, teachers, and community college workers can now get new classes, certifications, AI labs, and training.

Officials in California announced that the state is working with tech giant Nvidia to help train students, college teachers, data scientists, and developers in artificial intelligence.

According to the office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the project is part of an effort to make more resources available so that students, teachers, and workers, especially in community colleges, can learn new skills in generative AI and move up in their jobs. It is the goal of the partnership to add new courses and certifications, as well as AI labs and classes and hardware and software.

California’s top companies are making AI breakthroughs possible, and Newsom said in a statement that it’s important to give more Californians the chance to learn how to use this technology and move up in their jobs.

California said it would accept skills and training for state jobs as part of the voluntary agreement with Nvidia. This includes creating new roles for AI specialists in the government.

These semiconductors, which are used to run artificial intelligence (AI) apps, are in high demand at Nvidia. The chipmaker from Santa Clara, California, came up with the graphics processing unit (GPU), which changed the way computer graphics are made and helped the PC game market grow.

Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, said, “We’re in the early stages of a new industrial revolution that will change trillion-dollar industries around the world.”

Now, Nvidia’s specialised chips are important parts of many types of artificial intelligence, such as the newest generative AI apps like Google’s Gemini and ChatGPT.